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A Virtual Canary-in-the-Coalmine for the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover

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Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

6 min read

As many in the tech community will know, the DNS is a core part of the Internet’s infrastructure. It provides the vital function of mapping human-readable names (such as www.surf.nl) to machine readable information (such as 2001:610:188:410:145:100:190:243). When the DNS was designed in the 1980s, …

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BGP Meets Cat

BGP Meets Cat

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Christian Teuschel

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As controversial as the title sounds much attention was drawn last weekend to RIPEstat when Job Snijders (@JobSnijders) revealed his creation of a Nyan Cat painted by smartly managing the visibility of 175 /24 prefixes.

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Recursives in the Wild: Engineering Authoritative DNS Servers

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Moritz Müller

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By analysing how resolvers select authoritative name servers in the wild we investigated how DNS operators are able to reduce DNS response times.

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Finding Open DNS Resolvers on IPv6

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Luuk Hendriks

9 min read

Open DNS resolvers that answer queries coming from anyone have been the main component of a large number of DDoS attacks in recent years.

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What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

What Stops IPv6 Traffic in a Dual-stack ISP?

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Mirjam Kühne

9 min read

Please read this guest post by Enric Pujol, a network data analyst. Enric is looking at potential barriers that prevent ISPs to carry more traffic over IPv6.

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Research on DNS Root Server System

Research on DNS Root Server System

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Alun Davies

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APNIC and the RIPE NCC are about to conduct some joint research on the DNS root server system. Here's a quick heads up on our plans.

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12 Steps to Enable IPv6 in an ISP Network

12 Steps to Enable IPv6 in an ISP Network

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Jordi Palet Martinez

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This document is not intended to be a comprehensive and detailed technical digest of how to deploy IPv6 in an ISP network that currently has IPv4. Instead it is an executive summary of the 12 fundamental steps, not including services (DNS, web, email, etc.), for native IPv6 support and the maintena…

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Save the Date: RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6

Save the Date: RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6

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Vesna Manojlovic

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How appropriate - the topic of our upcoming sixth hackathon is IPv6! The event will happen on 4 and 5 November 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Applications will open later in the summer - for now, please mark your calendars if you are interested, and start thinking about possible projects.

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6th Anniversary of the World IPv6 Day

6th Anniversary of the World IPv6 Day

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Nathalie Trenaman

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Time flies, especially when you are having fun. This week, we are celebrating the 6th anniversary of the World IPv6 Day in 2011, which was held on the 8th of June.

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Investigating the Status of Reverse DNS

Investigating the Status of Reverse DNS

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Sofía Silva Berenguer

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On 20 and 21 April 2017, the RIPE NCC organised a DNS Measurements Hackathon in Amsterdam. I thought I would be the only one curious about reverse DNS delegations, so, to avoid being disappointed, I convinced myself that the best I could expect was to work on something I could recycle later and use…

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